linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/11] resource: Add System RAM resource type

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Message-ID: <1450993020.19330.15.camel@hpe.com>
Date:	Thu, 24 Dec 2015 14:37:00 -0700
From:	Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@....com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] resource: Add System RAM resource type

On Thu, 2015-12-24 at 20:58 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 10:08:57AM -0700, Toshi Kani wrote:
> > As for checkpatch, I noticed that commit 9c0ece069b3 removed "feature
> > -removal.txt" file, and checkpatch removed this check in commit
> > 78e3f1f01d2.  checkpatch does not have such check since then.  So, I am
> > inclined not to add this check back to checkpatch.
> 
> I didn't mean that.
> 
> Rather, something along the lines of, for example,
> the DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE matching but match those
> resource matching functions using the strings, i.e.,
> "(walk_iomem_res|find_next_iomem_res|region_intersects)" or so and
> warn when new code uses them and that it should rather use the new
> desc-matching variants.

OK, I will add a check to walk_iomem_res().  I will remove @name from
region_intersects(), and find_next_iomem_res() is an internal function.

Thanks,
-Toshi
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